Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego
(Trujillo, Peru)

The Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego
is located in Trujillo, Peru (Department of La Libertad). UPAU is a private university
founded in 1988 and has a current enrollment of 11,500 students. It offers an
extensive undergraduate curriculum and an accredited teaching staff. The university
has established a Natural History Museum which includes a herbarium with over
12,000 specimens (Herbario Antenor Orrego, HAO) and ca. 60 types. The herbarium
publishes Arnaldoa, a scientific journal devoted to the natural
history, primarily botany, of northern Peru.

Universidad Nacional de San Agustín
(Arequipa, Peru)

Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca
(Cajamarca, Peru)

The Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca
is a state university founded in 1962 and with a current enrollment of nearly
5,000 students. The Post-Graduate School (Esquela Post-Grado) was begun in 1992
and offers Master's Degrees in Natural Resources and Soil & Crop Sciences. The
herbarium (CPUN) was founded in 1962 and contains over 13,000 numbers of northern
Peruvian pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and phanerogams.

Dr. Isidoro Sánchez Vega (1929-2015)

Founder and Director of the Hebarium
[CPUN]
Professor in the Post Graduate School, Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca.
Associate Investigator, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA

Apartado 55
Cajamarca, Peru

Determinations and Taxonomic Experts

The following taxonomic specialists
who have identified material in our database projects, LOMAFLOR and DETBASE.
† deceased.

Acknowledgements

The development of ABIS has required
the cooperation of many people and institutions. The ABIS databases contain specimen
label information from Field Museum herbarium collections, current collecting
expeditions, and from records captured during visits to numerous herbaria. The
curators and staff of the following herbaria are acknowledged: A, BM, CAS, CONC,
CPUN, F, GH, HAO, HUT, K, MAK, MA, MO, NY, PRG, SGO, UC, US, USM.

We thank Drs. Bruce Patterson and
David Willard (Zoology Department, Field Museum) for their kind assistance with
the nomenclature of zoological records.

Funding for project field activities
has come from several sources. We acknowledge the support of the National Geographic
Society Grants entitled: The Botanical Response of Andean Desert Lomas Formations
to the 1982-83 El Niño Meteorological Perturbation, Floristic
Inventory of the Montane Forests of Northern Peru and Floristic Inventory
of the Bosque de Protección del Alto Mayo. The National Science Foundation
supported portions of the research on the lomas formations with BSR 8513205:
Biogeography and Evolution of the Lomas Formations of Peru and Chile
and NSF-SGER Grant: Botanical Collecting and Ecological Observations in Coastal
South American Deserts during the 1997-1998 ENSO Event.

Special thanks go to Dr. Helen Beiser
for her support and encouragement in the initial phases of implementation.

Webpage Design and Development

Activities related to ABIS were aided
much by the Museum Informatics Project at the University of California at Berkeley.
The MIP staff provided technical support and encouragement in the development
of the ABIS home page. Specifically, Tom Duncan [ex-Director of MIP] provided
help with the initiation and maintenance of ABIS in the 1990s. In 1994, ABIS was
migrated to its current domain.

We wish to thank Paul Zahnle
at NuroTec Consulting for the graphic designs
presented here and for his encouragement and technical support over the last
year. Mr. Zahnle came to the Field Museum as a volunteer in our bar-coding project
and during his tenure as a volunteer has helped on diverse projects. His participation
on this web site has been instrumental to its design and development.